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...international organization like the U.N. and funded by the the developed countries - that would buy AIDS drugs from major pharmaceuticals at deep discounts. Jeffrey Sachs, the economist who headed the study, says the initial cost for such a program would top $1 billion a year and would climb to $3 billion annually within five years; by comparison, Sachs says total annual U.S. aid to sub-Saharan African during the 1990s averaged just $150 million. But, Sachs points out, America's gross national product is now $10 trillion. So "each billion means one cent out of every $100 that America earns...
...exhibit at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Crafted of stainless steel on a modified Mercedes-Benz Unimog truck chassis, the MaxiMog has a 360-h.p. engine. The vehicle is street-legal in the U.S. and Europe, yet it can ford a 6-ft.-deep stream and climb a 45[degree] slope. For a mere $500,000 to $800,000, you can order a customized Maximog from Unicat Fahrzuegbau www.unicat.net www.maximog.com in Hambrucken, Germany...
...flunked gym because I couldn't climb that rope thing...
...chest. Now researchers report that patients with congestive heart failure may also be helped by a hunk of hardware. In two-thirds of 134 subjects studied, an implantable device called InSync restored the heart's malfunctioning electrical circuitry. As a result, patients could walk longer distances and climb more stairs without experiencing shortness of breath or fatigue. InSync is not yet approved by the FDA, but the nod is expected in late summer...
...good news for John McCain, who always looked his best in an uphill climb, is that this plateau will be brief. After five years spent getting McCain-Feingold to the Senate floor and two weeks dodging bullets once it got there, McCain-Feingold passed the Senate in an anticlimactic 59-41 roll-call vote Monday evening...